An oyster may be crossed in love.

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.